Infinite Jest

New York: Little, Brown, (1996). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 1,079 pp. Original quarter blue cloth over blue paper-covered boards, stamped in silver, in original unclipped ($29.95) dust-jacket. Mild edge wear, particular to spine ends and corners. Handling and shelf wear very minor. Some rubbing and smudges and light scratches to gloss. Protected in archival mylar. Book is square and firm. Considerable handling wear present. Consistent toning/smudges to page edges. Light curling to spine ends. A bit dirty. A few nicks along panel edges, small scuffs. Small grease spot to front panel corner. Remainder mark to bottom text block. Interior clean and unmarked.

Dust Jacket: Very Good

Hardcover: Good

"Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace. Categorized as an encyclopedic novel, Infinite Jest is featured in TIME magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. The novel has an unconventional narrative structure and includes hundreds of extensive endnotes, some with footnotes of their own. A literary fiction bestseller after having sold 44,000 hardcover copies in its first year of publication, the novel has since sold more than a million copies worldwide. Wallace's working title for Infinite Jest was A Failed Entertainment.”